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[Breaking through a wall or one of the barriers blocking entry into the Power Plant would have been a simple enough task. But David assumed there might end up being enough collateral damage after this assault, so avoiding it where possible wasn't a terrible idea.

With that in mind, he appeared inside of the main entrance of the plant and he brought the combat team in with him. The alarm was loud and blaring and he was sure the security bots would be on them in no time. ]

Good luck. [He vanished just as quickly as he had appeared, leaving the combat team to do their job.]

[What a convenient mode of transportation.

No time to reflect on the applications of Haller-based infrastructure. Now was the time for final pre-battle preparations before they started the diversionary assault. First order of business: ensure everyone was present and accounted for.]

Combat team, sound off!

[There wasn't much time before the bots would be upon them, so she'd have to be quick sharing the blessings of the Dragons with her team. Everyone willing will receive the following buffs:

All-Encompassing Earth Sense, essentially Toph-sight, for ambush-prevention. Works only on the ground floor.
Enfolded in the Dragon's Wings to immunize the team from her own destructive abilities
Armor Hardening Concentration and Blazing Courageous Swordsmen Inspiration to improve armor and inherent toughness

...and at that point, the first wave of bots are closing in, almost into engagement range. Any more enhancing Charms will have to wait.]

Incoming! Battle formation! [General Tepet readies her Daiklave and takes up a position at the head of the group alongside the frontline fighters.]

[Adeline was bouncing on her heels the whole time she was at the meeting. She hadn't been in a good big ole brawl since she ended up in this dump, far far too long for her tastes. That she'd be able to get in a scrap and it would benefit the city, ergo herself and her job (benefiting her twice over) was just gravy. Plus cookies! Everyone loves cookies.

The second the teleportation was finished with, the scaled woman's face broke out into a feral grin as she slams her dull black-gray gauntlets together, the impact activating her Darksteel artifact gauntlet's Power Field function, the rough, heavy looking black metal lighting up with golden-yellowish energies that would, hopefully, more effective against the expected mechanical opposition than her own claws, the Power Field making her gauntlets even more effective at breaking non-magical or energized weapons and armor. With a barely perceptible movement, Adeline settles into the base stance of the Setting Sun school, the defensive fighting style used best to gauge the opponent and to use the bot's strength against them. If she got a better idea of how the bots fought, she could switch to her Diamond Mind or Shadow Hand schools, schools that were more effective if one knew how and when to hide or feint an opponent.]

Adeline here. S'bout time. Let's see what this burg's got!

[Announces the woman as she flings herself into combat, her hard scales and training sure to make her more resistant to damage than the average human, artifact gauntlet weapon blazing as she moves like the wind to fight the bots, noting with a mildly piqued air the sudden feeling of magic that wasn't magic washing over her, adding to her own perceptions and natural toughness. So that was what that prissy stick-up-her-ass cutter could do huh? Interesting.... she'd have to talk to her later about that trick.
Didn't matter know as the first wave of bots approached of course, but something for her to keep in her mind.]

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Kiryuin Satsuki, standing by!

[After taking steps to bring calm to the chaos to 'acceptable' levels, Satsuki has eventually managed to arrive at the agreed upon time, looking about as annoyed as one might expect.

She's probably not alone either.

Unlike during her last battle, Satsuki doesn't raise a fuss about receiving any boosts, though it is a bit regretful she doesn't really understand what's happening to gain them- On the other hand, the sooner this all gets worked out, the better. The first wave consists of six K-911 warriors and two bulky Knightvision droids; the latter stand behind the group of canine-like droids.]

The two in the rear sport somewhat familiar designs, [Satsuki says with furrowed brows.] I believe they are mechanisms built for gathering intelligence, so will likely keep their distance.

Satsuki was indeed not alone. Swimming into focus, Koishi didn't look like much compared to the other members of the combat team, but judging someone purely by their looks would get you in trouble. Especially when youkai were involved. She stepped forward, looking at the other fighters. "Oh! Hello Miss Dragon!" She waved to Adeline. At least one face was familiar here.

She didn't charge in right away when Adeline engaged the enemy, instead glancing up at Satsuki. "Miss White? If you use Buggy I'll help you stay grounded with my powers. And I'll help your magic too. So that way you can be really really focused. So don't be afraid of going all out if you need to, okay?"

She turned her attention to the advancing robots, her unpleasant aura growing as she summoned her power. She would need something much more than danmaku. Raising her arms to her temples, a twisted bramble began growing in the mass of robots, the thorns digging into the metal. These vines would grow roses occasionally, the flowers splitting apart, the individual petals exploding as they came into contact with any surface. The little satori followed this attack up with several jagged lances of thought, the beams physically battering the robots. These attacks had the added benefit of creating a lot of light, revealing more of the room to those without night vision.

She didn't seem to be taking the fight all that seriously, however, spinning a little between the attacks, a clear smile on her face. Well, knowing how Koishi fought when she was actually angry it was probably for the best.

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[He's got his crystal shard for protection and is ready to light a small fire in his hand if need be. His powers may not be as strong as they should be, but that's not going to stop him from bringing the city's power back.

Kunzite would be disgusted if he knew. Kunzite, who longed to blanket the world in darkness...beautiful darkness. Zoisite isn't overly fond of light either, but he can't fix his hair in the dark. And some of the plants at the garden center need it.

And Zoisite just plain dislikes things that get in his way. No matter how inconsequential.]

Zoisite, third of the Four Heavenly Kings, reporting.

[And with a pretentious laugh and hairflick, the demon slipped out the shadows to join the combat group. He wasn't armed - he didn't need to be - but Koishi's flight charm was still pinned onto his jacket. He rarely left the house without it these days.]

Dark Adonis Vyers, City Guardian of Attleton, reporting~ Hmhm, is this really all of them? They do not stand half a chance against our power!

[It certainly made things interesting, seeing so many of the City Guardians and their allies gather together at once like this, and joining them in a fight rather made him feel at home.

Regardless, now Attleton's issues were over, he wanted to do what he could to help the other city in it's time of need.]

En guarde!

[And with that, he let his body float up in the air a little way, a large ball of power forming above his hands that he threw into the robotic frontline.]

[With the trio of K-911s and their Knightvision backup closing in and Adeline charging head on, the fight had begun. She'd have to do something about the lizard-girl's impulsiveness if they were going to fight together more often, but now wasn't the time.]

Choose your targets, take them down! Stick together, check your corners, and head for the generator. [That was enough direction for now. Battlefield micromanagement was rarely much use, and certainly not with such an unfamiliar and... diverse unit.]

[Rather than join Adeline's headlong assault, the general opted to blast one of the dog-shaped robots with a fire-aspected Elemental Bolt, melting it near-instantly to scrap, the corrosive green glow of her Anima intensifying at the Essence expenditure.

The bots were springing into action now, having reached engagement range. The pair of Knightvision droids seemed to be scanning the group while the remaining K-911s rushed forward to intercept Adeline's charge]

[Maybe if some people weren't such big slow prisses then she wouldn't need to be curbed. Gosh. Her head dips once, a big firey smile on her face as she greeted the odd not-daemon girl. Good thing she paid attention to what her 'minder' Satsookee or whatever had said.]

Poke 'em in the eyes, got it! Dibs on th' blighters in the back!

[Grinning, she used her quick feet to dart in and over the crowd of dog-bots to engage one of the Knightvision droids, her gauntleted hands lashing out quickly to keep the amount of information they could learn about the group down by forcing it to focus on her[

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It is highly likely this is merely the first wave.

[Satsuki replies to Vyers with a slight frown. Still as trying as he can be, it is nice to see another familiar face. Satsuki doesn't appear to be in any particular rush to draw bakuzan until one closes in on her which she cleaves into two perfect halves. The heroes thus far are making pretty short work of the first wave- especially the front lines as 4 of the 6 of the k9s are obliterated and Adeline quite easily draws attention from the back group and make them both scan her to attempt to determine an elemental weakness. This also allows Koishi to easily easily root them in place and damage.

Of the last of the two, both focuses on Zoisite and attack by extending their tongues to try and capture his ankle then send out a paralyzing shock of electricity.]

And I do not plan to just yet, Komeiji, but I shall keep that in mind.

(OOC: I'll post the next wave after Vyers)

Koishi was really starting to get into the swing of things. Magic bolts, hearts, and roses were haphazardly peppering the enemy. Brambles were twisting across the ground in areas... But the little Koiball wasn't even close to done. Not really content with simply weaving her spells, she crouched, her muscles coiled, sclera stained black making her eyes appear brighter as she sized up her opponents.

Stay with the group? That is the exact opposite of what she should do. With her unsettling aura it would inhibit her allies more than the robots they were fighting.

She darted forward, nearly invisible, several of her tendrils sliding from her sleeves, the heart shaped ends saturating with magic. She lashed forward with them, dodging and weaving between the bots, battering them apart. More brambles trailed behind her, tangling them further and laying down a thorny trap for the second wave.

"Mais bien sûr!" he called to Satsuki, "But if the other waves are as weak as this, we will break through in no time at all!"

Wow, Koishi was certainly an impressive fighter, he thought as her spells caught his attention. Those brambles and magic heart bolts? Definitely good taste as well. Satsuki's swordsmanship was also akin to something he would expect back home. Was she really a human? Impressive indeed. Adeline, Tepet and Zoisite were definitely showing their merits as well. He vanity would not see any of them were as skilled as he was, of course, but he was definitely enjoying seeing what all of them were capable of. Perhaps a Guardian grand tournament would need to follow this? Hm...

Their party all seemed to be doing a fine job, the front line falling quickly as far as he could see. He imagined more would come soon, but he wanted to gain some ground now whilst they had the chance. Midboss moved forward, kicking out at any robots who came close ~~even if he did wince because goodness those metal things hurt his foot~~. He was grateful for Tepet's buffing abilities right now.

"Ow! You will pay for that!"

"A point difficult to argue against," Satsuki replies in turn. She was just about to praise his own ability until he.. Did he just hurt his foot? She raises a hand to her face and sighs.

It seems the power plant isn't going to give the group the luxury of wiping everything out before moving on to the second wave, however. The robots have determined that the lights, dim as they may be, are providing them an advantage-

And so they proceed to flicker, then go out entirely, leaving the rooms pitch black save for the lights blinking upon their enemies. After that happens, there is the sound of light-weighted metal lifting in which several more lit enemies appear; right out of the wall which flank the group from the front -and- the rear now.

In the rear group, one set of lights is completely unfamiliar. Behind it are the familiar lights of two more knightvision droids, and at the front familiar lights of four K-9s. (The area becoming lit in any manner would reveal the unfamiliar to be the very durable 'little buddy' droid and the position to be an extremely defensive one.)

The front group is a very large pack of the K-9s, eight of them, to add to the two Knight visions being dismantled. The dog-like robots waste no time striking first since they don't need to see in light, so everyone has to deal with extendable, shocking tongues being shot their way.

[With the lights off, the team will have to get used to using the All-Encompassing Earth Sense in a hurry. And now they were flanked.]

Don't stop advancing! Vyers, Zoisite, defend the rear! Everyone else carve a path forward!

[With the automata already reinforcing, there was little chance they'd let up anytime soon. If she was going to buff the team and their weapons any further, Ejava would have to make an opening. An Earth-aspected Elemental Blast impacted the ground just in front of Adeline, bursting into an explosion of elemental Essence that knocked the K-9s momentarily off their feet, sparing her allies thanks to the protections she'd granted them. The brief respite bought enough time for her to follow up with Dragon Blade Beneficence. Elemental Essence of all Aspects roiled over the surface of her Daiklave, Satsuki's blade, and Adeline's power gauntlets, empowering them with additional elemental effects.]

[OOC: if anyone else has melee weapons I missed, they get the same buffs.

The buffed weapons gain the following on-hit effects:
Fire: extra damage
Wood: extra damage
Earth: knockdown
Air: penalty to target's next action
Water: slows down target's next action]

Koishi was barely listening, turning to direct her attention forward once more. She did react to the lights going out, however, seeming to snap her out of her single-minded attack. She was still very visible in the dark, the ends of her tentacles glowing along with her hands and eyes.

"Miss White! Be careful, okay? Humans can't see in the dark." You didn't really have to INFORM her of that Koishi. "I'll fix it!" Wait...

She took off like a rocket, hovering above the advancing robots and tucking into a ball, somersaulting a short way. Danmaku wasn't good for actual fights, and neither were spellcards. However sometimes their utility could be put to good use... and no one said you couldn't turn up the magical potency so they did some real damage either.

"Superego."

Koishi lit up like a beacon drawing in the robots around her like a black hole, her entire body sparking with potent magic. the robots that touched it were sliced to ribbons, drawing in blue magical hearts to batter the ones that didn't get close enough to touch.

Unfortunately this only destroyed those nearest her, though it was rapidly drawing more in, the suction growing stronger the closer they got. And, while the spell provided some light, it wasn't enough to light the whole room.

Adeline's body would be analyzed all as they pleased, but the most the droids would have gotten from their scan was that she had some firey aspects that they only got when Adeline decided to finish them off with her flaming breath, the fires light with blues and greens and yellows melting the downed bots into slag.

And then the lights went out. Adeline's reptillian eyes gleamed in the dark, visible to the rest as pinpricks of yellow and black gleaming in the dark. "Well, that's prolly not good. More comin....got the ones in the back!" She said using the explosion to flip over to the backline once more, furiously attacking the scanbots again, her buffed gauntlets striking and lashing out, once more intent at drawing their aggro as she shifted into her martial style, the defensive cautious movements replaced by the sneaky and sudden lashes of the Shadow Hand style.

Earth Sense.. Well that's new; how quickly Satsuki can adjust to it isn't really clear but thankfully Koishi helps with the adjusting process in a pinch with her own boost of light. She trusts the others to follow orders so she can focus on the front lines, intrigued by the new boost to her abilities. "Understood." Also the Koiball's 'ProTip' isn't responded to.

The 'Superego' spell certainly does its damage, the knocked over K-9s are a prime target for it with more than half of the group caught within and diced to ribbons and sparks- Adeline's fire not only finish off the Knight Vision droids in a spectacular display of flame, sparks and combustion but assists in the K-9s demise as well leaving them a mere three that Satsuki easily handles with a flurry of slashes of her blade that ends up doing far more than she had expected and are torn apart.

With the front line cleared, the group can see that a diagonal-traveling lift that heads to the generator is within reach and rather suspiciously unguarded..

As for the rear line, when Adeline flips over the Buddy-droid, she activates it's counter-attack involving an burst of blue gas along the way; gas with the possible effect of making her fall asleep after her first swing of her fists. Depending on the result; either one or both of the knight droids are damaged by the gauntlet assault and attention taken. The K-9s focused on Zoicite are easily dispatched by Vyers (and possibly Zoicite as well) leaving them to deal with the other four canine-like droids which attack with their extended, shocking tongues.

Also of note that whichever tries to get past it to assist Adeline first is targeted by Buddy's 'Block' technique which places itself directly in the other's path.

[David waited 40 minutes to give the combat team time to work. He thought that was more than enough time for them to paint themselves as a threat to the bots. When that time was up, he teleported into the control room, bringing the generator team along with him.

They were all surrounded by a shield in case a threat lingered once they appeared.]

Alright. Get to work. Work as fast and efficiently as possible.

[Chihiro kept a firm grip on her laptop and the moment they arrived, he was looking for a port, or something that he could use to be anle to start hacking away. After a few moments he spotted something and quickly made his way over.]

Okay, I'm about to start. It might take me five minutes or so to even get in, so I do apologize for that.

Don't apologize, just work. [That's not a reprimand or anything, he just doesn't think she has anything that she needs to apologize for. He honestly thought it would take longer than that.]

Just keep me updated on your progress. [He shifts his attention to the entrance in case any robots decide to come through the door.]

[He is quietly trying his best to get on with it, but slowly but surely the pressure was getting to him.]

O-Okay, I will try my best.

[He starts typing away, letting Alter Ego know what he was planning as he continued hacking into it.]

I'm not in yet, but I am at least making progress. Is everything else going on okay?

Everything is okay from what I can tell. [If it wasn't, then it would have been blatantly obvious by now.]

Seems like the combat team has taken down a lot of bots. [Speaking of bots, the door opens and a Little Buddy bot rolls in. Before it can do anything, though, it is suddenly crushed as if collapsing under its own weight.]

[Chihiro had looked over for a moment using this time to see what was going on behind him. He looked generally upset at seeing the robot collapsing under it's weight, the poor thing.]

T-They are hurting the robots, aren't they?

[He turned his head slightly looking back at his screen. He doesn't think he can look back again, at least for now.]

Twenty percent done.

So they don't converge on us, yes. [If you could really call destroy robots hurting them. Most of the robots he'd ever encountered were heartless killing machines.]

Does that bother you? [He was asking out of general curiosity. It wasn't often you encountered someone that was empathic to technology.]

[He looked back slightly, hsi eyes looking toward the floor.]

I-It does. I mean that could just be me though but I don't like seeing anyone, human, insect, animal, even robots getting hurt.

[David waves his hand in the direction of the crushed robot and it uncrumbles as if time is reversing itself on it. Soon, it is completely undamaged and in perfect working condition like before.

Though as soon as it powers back up, it powers down again.]

That will give you one less robot to worry about. Instead of destroy it, I just removed the charge from its battery. When this is all done, they will recharge it so that it will work once more.

How much longer?

[He looked at his screen again quietly. He was checking every few seconds and couldn't help but sigh with relief as he noticed that it wasn't long now.]

Just one minute left, so it should be fine. Hopefully nothing bad will happen.

You really do quick work. I'll have to bring you along for all of my hacking adventures. [He stretches a little.] I think the bad has already happened with the generator going haywire in the first place.

I-It's not me that's doing the quick work. It's Alter Ego that does most of it. I've been doing practise runs with them, thus why it's fast.

[He types of a few things. He knew now he was in, he just needed to sort out a couple of things and that was it.]

I-I guess. I'm nearly done.

It's something you created. It's your genius given form. Take pride in it. [He flexes his hand a little bit and opens up a small portal in front of himself.] Let me know when you've shut it down.

That might take a little longer.

[Getting in was one thing, getting the right code and getting in to shut it down was another.]

Hopefully I'll be able to figure it out because of the help. [He paused, typing up a few things, he could see it might take a little longer.]

I think something might be happening. Can you go check outside, please? I-If you can of course.

Sure thing. [He vanishes the portal and moves towards the door. He moves the little powered down robot out of the way with a wave of his hand as he does.

He slides the door open and peaks his head out and takes a casual looks around.]

[He looks at the screen again for a moment, typing up a message for Alter Ego who had returned saying that they had done. he just hoped that really had been the case.]

Thank you, Alter Ego. At least now there shouldn't be any more freak outs.

[He pulls his head back inside and closes the door before starting over to Chihiro.]

Did Alter Ego find anything interesting in the system?

I didn't think to ask. I'll check that over later. As for solving this problem... I think that they did it.

[He just types away quietly for a minute before pausing.]

So things should be fine as I believe I said already.

Alright. So where are we on shutting down the generator?

I should be about five minutes away from shutting it down.

Alright. I will just keep on watch in case something happens. [He posts up near Chihiro and just crosses his arms over his chest while watching the area.]

[He nods slightly typing away and making sure Alter Ego let him know how things were going. After around five minutes or so he looks over.]

Okay it should be down now.

Alright. [He reopens a portal to the generator and he floats the object inside of it out. It turns out to be a pendant, much like the ones that they have.]

Hm...I..really thought it might be something else that was in there. [He closes the portal.]

[Chihiro closed the laptop, picking it up as soon as he had gotten what was inside. Once he did that he moved to stand up, picking it up as he went before looking somewhat puzzled.]

I-I don't understand how that could have gotten in there, or how it would cause problems.

[Closed] We're gonna turn it on

Combat Team

Ready up errbody glhf

glhf nerds let me know if i do anything wrong kk?

Sorry for the delay!

glhf don't engage without the full team!

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is anyone gonna be like "GMing" this or are we all kinda just doing whatever? Am _I_ assumed-GM? idk

I was just waiting for you because I assumed a post order was in effect

I wouldn't mind GM'ing, I just plan to keep it brief with our numbers. :o

:D sweet

Thank you ^^

I LIVE

good thing everyone has temporary Tophsight huehuehue

And people can see normally again.

Dragons don't need light to see

It's been a while so I'm going to continue. The others can jump in once they get back.

Generator Team

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